DeLauro Statement on Continuing Resolution

WASHINGTON – House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on the continuing resolution introduced today in the Senate:

“Two weeks ago, House Republican leadership forced us to vote on an incomplete and inadequate first draft of a continuing resolution. I was clear at the time – any serious measure to fund the government must continue the bipartisan, bicameral agreement to prohibit funding for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol in annual appropriations bills unless dramatic reforms are included.

“I also made clear that a serious bipartisan proposal should address the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) continued attempts to codify their desire to discriminate against Federal grant recipients based on their political viewpoints and undermine the first amendment rights of Americans – anti-constitutional actions which the Department of Energy recently admitted in court to carrying out. 

“The bill the Senate is expected to consider this week includes both of those critical elements, along with other important provisions needed to keep government functioning without disruption. 

“While the bill temporarily blocks the proposed OMB rule, the fight must continue. The Senate bill forces OMB to continue reviewing the half-million comments that were submitted, but Congress must permanently prevent this corrupt, harmful power grab before the new deadline of December 11. 

“This bill is a clear improvement over the House Republican continuing resolution, but we are still nearly two months away from the end of the fiscal year and should be working together to pass full-year funding bills that lower the cost of living, rein in the corruption at the highest levels of the government, and can earn the support of Democrats and Republicans in the House and in the Senate.”

Ranking Member DeLauro has been leading the charge to force OMB to withdraw its proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. During full committee markups of the 2027 Republican full year funding bills, DeLauro twice offered amendments to block OMB Director Russ Vought’s scheme to give President Trump’s political appointees unilateral veto power over all grant spending. 

DeLauro confronted Vought about the rush to finalize this rule at a hearing last month.

With the other eleven Democratic subcommittee Ranking Members, DeLauro wrote to Vought, “As proposed, this regulation would result in a seismic and ill-informed change to an enormous portion of the United States economy and would upend the established understanding of how Federal appropriations are carried out, undermining the integrity of government programs.”

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